ABSTRACT
Most research concerning intersexed people focuses on infants, children and adolescents, on variations visible at birth or on surgical and hormonal interventions that conform intersexed variations to normative expectations of sex and gender. Older intersexed people are living with the consequences of how potentially all such sexual rights have been violated, perhaps especially 'the right to equality and non-discrimination' and 'the right to autonomy and bodily integrity'. To speak of intersex ageing concerns is very much a product of recent developments in medicine. With technical advances in medicine in the latter half of the 20th century, various intersexualizing diagnoses became more common. Many of this population have histories of non-consensual medical interventions and are living with the ongoing effects, physically and emotionally, of those interventions. Many of the people appearing in Intersexion describe the shame of hiding their differences and being made to lie about 'vacationing' when they were in hospital for surgeries.
